Mara is a Registered Nurse and a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. She is also skilled in muscle testing and is currently continuing her education in functional nutrition. Her nursing experience spanned nearly 4 decades in hospitals, home health, and cancer clinics, mostly caring for cancer patients. For the past 15 years, she has been counseling patients on healthier options for food and nutrition, in supporting their health during and after cancer treatment.

Mara's nutritional journey started 20 years ago when she found herself exhausted, battling frequent respiratory ailments, and gaining weight. After many tests and medical visits, she was still just as tired and sick. She sought nutritional information, including the course from the American Academy of Nutrition. The Nutritional Therapy program was able to tie all the information together with the resources to benefit her own health as well as her patients.